Apparently, Bush thinks we must renew the Patriot Act so that we can fight organized crime and drug trafficing. Na, there’s no mission creep occurring here…

Now there’s lots of applause for the king’s president’s stated desire to continue to spy on Americans. He’s so pleased that he’s smirking. Hillary is smirking, too, probably because she knows that she’d be more than happy to authorize the same sort of illegal surveilance if she were queen President.

Cindy was invited by a Democratic Congresswoman, so I hardly see how some of you can tell us that Cindy is your fringe. Your party invited her to the Capital Gallery where she promptly caused a scene for the media’s benefit. Loony toons.

Bush is kicking the Dems ass on this NSA thing. Why do the Dems want to protect people on Al Qaeda’s speed dial list? Why? This is effective bully-pulpiting which will send his political enemies into a tizzy.

Apparently the “scene” was caused by a citizen, Cindy Sheehan, who was invited to attend the SOTU address by a congresswoman, and who attempted to attend the SOTU and was pre-emptively determined to be a threat.

Mexican Mango is a sweet tequila from Cancun. The Mexican Riviera cannot be recommended enough. The people are warm and friendly, and you can’t beat the beaches. You can rent a car and drive up and down the peninsula. I will be there in March.

Sounds good…I generally go for some Patron, Herradura, or Cabo Wabo with ice and maybe a drop or Rose’s lime juice when feeling sophisticated…Cuervo when it’s about quantity instead of quality.

My dream is to live the live of Fred Dryer in Land’s End…but I guess I just want to drive around the beaches in a GTO, with a heavily armed compound as my home, something like a ranchero version of Charlton Heston’s place in Omega Man.

I think President Bush’s vision is epic. The bold initiatives for alternative energy, his plan to democratize the Middle East, reforming Social Security… History will see him as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Presidents the USA has ever had. Like FDR and Kennedy before him, he holds to true conservative principals like preemptive foreign policy.

I applaud President Bush and hope that we can all come together in bipartisan support of his vision.

I don’t get it. Why mention Cindy Sheehan at all? She’s the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq. That’s all I know about her, and frankly, all I want to know about her. Having lost her son gives her a right to have an opinion, and whether I agree with her opinion or not is irrelevant. (For the record, I’ve never talked to her to find out her opinion, so I have no idea whether I’d agree with it or not… and no, I’m not going to take some 3rd party’s word about what her opinion is).

John mentioned left-wing circular firing squads. What about right-wing circle jerks? Every time you guys try to run down the mother of a deceased veteran, it makes right wingers look bad. But boy, you guys sure seem to have fun jerking off in a circle… “Cindy Sheehan!” “Hahahaha!” “Bwahahahah!” “Cindy Sheehan!” “ROFL!” Sorry to bring the bad news to you, but making fun of grieving mothers, no matter how laughable their opinion is, is not the way to win friends and influence people. It just makes people think you’re a bunch of jerks.

But what the hey, you guys never listen to Libertarians anyhow, except to confuse us with liberals… so keep on circle-jerking away. “Cindy Sheehan!” “Hahahahah!”. Sheesh.

But, that will drown out the chorus of Sheehan-ridiculers, those noble citizens who find making fun of the crazed war mother is the best way to express their great patriotism and their manly Republicanness.

Be quiet, satirists, and let the righties have their fun at the expense of the hapless and pathetic Sheehan!

When the heck will Bush learn to pronounce “nuclear” correctly. Every time he said “nucular” I cringed. Is it too much to ask that our president speak proper english? I can only assume that mispronouncing words is some sort of affectation to make him sound more like a common person. Unfortunately the only other person I know that mispronounces that word is my father in law–but he also goes to breftast which is simular (not similar) to breakfast.

Shorter Bush: America is at the top of its game. I am King. You are peons. Here are some ideas, so love them or I listen in on grandma’s phone calls and sweep her away to a lab to turn her into a human-animal hybird or something.

God bless America.

(On a side note, I want to thank John Cole because I made a bet with a friend in the car driving back from dinner that the SOTU address would take second fiddle to the Cindy Sheehan news. I said John would lead with that. Now, I am $20 bucks in the black. Thanks, John. Your predictability is legend!)

Sheehan was invited by Rep Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). She sat down and took off her jacket, and allegedly was wearing a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan. Capitol hill police asked her to put the jacket back on (allegedly telling her such displays were not allowed), to which she made no response. At that point they arrested her, cuffed her, and marched her out of the gallery before the president arrived. The charge is the misdemeanor “demonstrating in the capitol building”.

um… I am not an attorney, I do not know if that’s going to stand. I suspect it’s skirting the edge – and if I were her defense attorney I’d be looking for signs or shirts that were pro-Bush at the same event for which the bearers suffered no consequences. BUT, she has a history of demonstrating, and though she said before the speech that since she was the guest of a congresswoman she wasn’t planning to do anything but listen the t-shirt could have been considered provocative.

That said, it won’t change any minds either way. Heck, I’ll bet that most anti-Bushers will assume that she didn’t even have the t-shirt, while most anti-Sheehans will assume she started waving signs and yelling. And neither side will care that they’re wrong.

Yet another jeff… maybe. On the other hand, I’ll repeat (synopsize actually) a rant I’ve been making for over half a dozen years…

The GOP-backed civil suit against Clinton was a pyrrhic victory. ANY president now faces precedent that he/she cannot use the office to delay or deny a court hearing. Getting president Bush tied to this incident will be a stretch, but given some of the whoppers I’ve seen not only from both sides of the aisle but other a-political cases, it shouldn’t be automatically rejected as impossible.

Ok, new rule, NO ONE is allowed to use MLK Jr. to justify a war.
Anyways, I have an 8 AM class tommorow, and I thought “well, if I only take a sip each time he lies, I should be ok for tommorow. I mean, there is only so much BS one can fit into a single speech”. Needless to say, I’m drunk enough to post on BJ for the first time in about 6 months, so, we’ll see how class goes tommorow.

But really, this thread is about Cindy Sheehan and her disruptive behavior in the Capitol Building. It is downright unAmerican to wear a t-shirt with the number of dead US soldiers on it to the State of the Union address. She might as well have worn a turban that said “I LOVE TERRORISTS!”

It seemed to me that Diane Feinstein was none too thrilled when a reporter told her that Sheehan had received her ticket for the chamber from a California congresswoman, undoubtedly another wacko in the Sheehan mold.

I’m probably the only one around here who watches the Gilmore Girls, but one of the things I love about the show are the constant lefty political quips that likely go over many viewers’ heads. For the first couple years of the series, Al Gore was the president. I enjoyed the denial immensely. And tonight, they just had a scene where the main character was letting her friend take her dog overnight to determine if she was a “dog person.” The main character was putting the leash on the dog while he wasn’t watching. Her friend asked her why, and she said, “like most Americans, he doesn’t mind giving up his freedom as long as he doesn’t notice it happening.” Maybe you had to see it to enjoy it. But all the little digs at Bush are part of the show’s charm. Anyway, that’s my contribution tonight. I didn’t watch the SOTU. Can’t handle it. Or him, I should say.

Bush is kicking the Dems ass on this NSA thing. Why do the Dems want to protect people on Al Qaeda’s speed dial list? Why? This is effective bully-pulpiting which will send his political enemies into a tizzy.

Because democrats, by and large, believe this is a nation of laws and not of men.